Re: is this like a peering war somehow?

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

If you have an 8meg ADSL line and want to deliver IPTV you need some kind of preferential treatment to the TV packets on this access line to ensure quality, for instance in the case of the user doing a file transfer at the same time they're watching TV.

Provided that IPTV or VoIP are the only [large] datagram streams in progress, this is not difficult to do on the CPE end -- in fact, this sort of thing is already available as a QoS option in some home router appliances. It involves scaling back TCP streams so that they leave enough headroom for the in-progress IPTV or VoIP. -- -- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>